Cooperative Conservation with PERC
07/22/23 • 83 min
Hannah Downey is the policy director at PERC, leading policy strategy and government affairs efforts to implement key policy reforms based on PERC’s groundbreaking research. She has applied her passion for the outdoors to advance lasting conservation wins since joining PERC in 2015. Hannah has testified before Congress and works closely with policymakers at the federal and state levels on conservation issues, and her work has been featured in media outlets including The Wall Street Journal and The Hill. Though she grew up in the Midwest, Hannah was lucky enough to spend her summers in Montana and worked as a backpacking guide in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness throughout college. Hannah now calls Bozeman home and fills her spare moments coaching youth mountain biking, serving on the board of the local ski foundation, and enjoying the wonderful outdoors every way she can.
If you enjoy the podcast, I’d really appreciate it if you drop us a review, share it with a friend, or find us on Instagram.
Topics Discussed:
- Dinner discussions with a politically-opposite spouse.
- How sportsmen's groups help or hinder the cause.
- Incentive programs that encourage conservation practices.
- Opportunities for Sportsmen to invest in conservation.
- Reforming the ESA.
- Upcoming Conservation Issues Sportsmen Need to Know.
You can find more about Everett Headley, your host, at his website or Instagram.
Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music: Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking
Hannah Downey is the policy director at PERC, leading policy strategy and government affairs efforts to implement key policy reforms based on PERC’s groundbreaking research. She has applied her passion for the outdoors to advance lasting conservation wins since joining PERC in 2015. Hannah has testified before Congress and works closely with policymakers at the federal and state levels on conservation issues, and her work has been featured in media outlets including The Wall Street Journal and The Hill. Though she grew up in the Midwest, Hannah was lucky enough to spend her summers in Montana and worked as a backpacking guide in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness throughout college. Hannah now calls Bozeman home and fills her spare moments coaching youth mountain biking, serving on the board of the local ski foundation, and enjoying the wonderful outdoors every way she can.
If you enjoy the podcast, I’d really appreciate it if you drop us a review, share it with a friend, or find us on Instagram.
Topics Discussed:
- Dinner discussions with a politically-opposite spouse.
- How sportsmen's groups help or hinder the cause.
- Incentive programs that encourage conservation practices.
- Opportunities for Sportsmen to invest in conservation.
- Reforming the ESA.
- Upcoming Conservation Issues Sportsmen Need to Know.
You can find more about Everett Headley, your host, at his website or Instagram.
Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music: Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking
Previous Episode
Eighty-Four Years of Hunting and Fishing
Gary is one of those old timers we all hope to be someday: retire early, move to the land of your boyhood dreams, and spend the rest of your life hunting and fishing. Born in raised on a farm in central Michigan, he completed his degree in Fisheries and joined the Army. In 1962 he married his sweetheart and spent 52 years with her and his two boys. His work as a fisheries biologist took around Michigan, including 18 years at the manger of the state's best trout stream, the AuSable River. In Gary's words, "If I had it to do all over again, I would have come to know the Lord a lot earlier and been a better husband and father. Everything else I would leave the same."
If you enjoy the podcast, I’d really appreciate it if you drop us a review, share it with a friend, or find us on Instagram.
Topics Discussed:
- Life after 80 years of hunting and fishing.
- Remembering your first buck.
- The really important things in life.
- Hustling even when life is tough.
You can find more about Everett Headley, your host, at his website or Instagram.
Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music: Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking
Next Episode
Advocating for Hunting
Michael Sabbeth is a lawyer, author, and lecturer on ethics and rhetoric. His recent work, The Honorable Hunter: Defending and Advancing Our Hunting Heritage, is a step by step guide on how to develop your own conversations on hunting that will be effective helping non-hunters better understand our passion. He has been a lecturer at Master Hunter Education programs, is an NRA-certified instructor in shotgun disciplines, a Boy Scout merit badge counselor in the shotgun discipline, consults for the United States Shooting Association on media relations and writes for many prominent hunting and shooting magazines, including Safari Magazine, The Double Gun Journal, Sporting Classics and ClayingShootingUSA.
If you enjoy the podcast, I’d really appreciate it if you drop us a review, share it with a friend, or find us on Instagram.
Topics Discussed:
- Hemingway, his writing and discipline and drinking.
- Ethics are everywhere in hunting and not just situational.
- Crafting arguments in response to anti-hunting.
- Virtual signaling and pathological altruism.
- Words matter: trophy hunting.
- Self Policing as hunters.
- Finding legitimacy in hunting.
- Harvesting vs Killing.
You can find more about Everett Headley, your host, at his website or Instagram.
Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music: Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/elevate-the-hunt-293974/cooperative-conservation-with-perc-38418277"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to cooperative conservation with perc on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy